The 10 Most Important Things In The World Right Now

1. An Iraqi
Shi'ite coalition is close to nominating a prime
minister, Iraq's deputy speaker Haider al-Abadi said in
a tweet on Monday, meaning that prime minister Nuri
al-Maliki may have to give up his bid for a third
term. This comes after Maliki gave a surprise
television speech Sunday night filing a complaint against
president Fuad Masum for violating the constitution.

2. The second three-day cease-fire between Israel and
Hamas has taken effect in Gaza. If the truce holds,
"Israel will send negotiators to Cairo on Monday for talks on a
longer-term deal," the BBC said.

3. The streets of Ferguson, Missouri, descended into
chaos Sunday night following the fatal shooting of a teenager by a police
officer. Protesters smashed windows and looted
stores after a candlelight vigil for 18-year-old Michael Brown,
who witnesses say was unarmed when the shooting occurred.

4. Tens of thousands of members from the Yazidi community
who escaped to the Sinjar mountains in Northwestern
Iraq made their way to a Syrian refuge camp Sunday night.
Thousands of Yazidis remain trapped in the mountains, where the
minority group has been seeking safety from ISIS militants for
several weeks.

4. Oil-and-gas pipeline
company Kinder Morgan plans to spend $44 billion to buy out all
its subsidiaries in the second-largest deal in the energy
sector, The Financial Times
said.Kinder currently manages 80,000
miles of pipeline in North America.

5. Investigators have not ruled out criminal charges in
the fatal collision that occurred Saturday night in which
NASCAR champion Tony Stewart struck and
killed 20-year-old driver Kevin Ward Jr. A
former state and federal prosecutor told the Associated Press: "I think even
with the video, it's going to be tough to prove that this was
more than just an accident and that it was even culpable
negligence, which he should've known or should've believed that
by getting close to this guy, that it was going to cause the
accident," he said.

6. Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has
announced a $50 million investment in BuzzFeed, placing the value
of the company at $850 million, The New York Times
reported. The money will be used to make
"several major changes, including introducing new content
sections, creating an in-house incubator for new technology and
potential acquisitions, and putting far more resources toward
BuzzFeed Motion Pictures," The Times said.

7. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan won Turkey's first
presidential election by popular vote, holding onto to his
12-year reign in office. The outcome "cements
[Erdogan's] position as Turkey's most powerful ruler since the
Republic's founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, was president in the
1930s," The Wall Street Journal said.

8. Rory
McIlroy won the PGA championship in Valhalla on
Sunday.The 25-year-old from Northern Ireland has
secured his status as world number one with his second straight
major title.

10. MPs are calling for mandatory health warnings on
bottles of wine, beer, and spirits to combat alcohol abuse in
Britain and raise awareness about the dangers of excessive
drinking, The Guardian reported. An advocacy
group for alcohol misuse says the labels should display written
warnings as well as caloric information.

And finally...

Actors Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort of "The Fault in
Our Stars" were the big winners of Sunday night's Teen Choice Awards. Both took
home an award for Choice Move Drama and shared an award for
Choice Movie Chemistry.